Release Date: 1931-05-11

Overview: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Rating: 8.074 (2298 votes)

Release Date: 2001-05-26

Overview: In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.

Rating: 7.1 (501 votes)

Release Date: 1928-05-15

Overview: Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Rating: 7.292 (571 votes)

Release Date: 1927-02-14

Overview: London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

Rating: 7.115 (313 votes)

Release Date: 1928-05-11

Overview: Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

Rating: 6.9 (209 votes)

Release Date: 1927-11-04

Overview: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Rating: 7.838 (840 votes)

Release Date: 1922-02-16

Overview: The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

Rating: 7.675 (2284 votes)

Release Date: 1915-03-08

Overview: Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Rating: 6.008 (554 votes)

Release Date: 1927-10-06

Overview: A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Rating: 6.1 (235 votes)

Release Date: 1929-10-14

Overview: A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

Rating: 7.185 (108 votes)

Release Date: 1927-02-05

Overview: A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, the capitvating personal quality otherwise known as "it."

Rating: 6.9 (66 votes)

Release Date: 1947-12-24

Overview: After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Rating: 6.44 (150 votes)

Release Date: 1929-06-05

Overview: Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Rating: 7.421 (1336 votes)

Release Date: 1944-07-06

Overview: A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

Rating: 8.111 (1883 votes)

Release Date: 1920-02-27

Overview: Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Rating: 7.9 (1663 votes)

Release Date: 1957-02-16

Overview: When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Rating: 8.183 (3128 votes)

Release Date: 1931-02-06

Overview: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Rating: 8.3 (2290 votes)

Release Date: 1941-04-17

Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Rating: 8 (5708 votes)

Release Date: 1982-03-02

Overview: Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Rating: 7.632 (807 votes)

Release Date: 1948-01-15

Overview: Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

Rating: 7.954 (1250 votes)